Software Developer - HM Courts and Tribunals Service - SEO
Government Digital & Data -
Full-time (Permanent)
The national salary range is £41,463 - £45,276, London salary range is £47,657 - £52,040.
Published on
4 April 2025
Deadline
30 September 2025
As a Software Developer at HMCTS you will work with a wide range of stakeholders such as user researchers, product managers, designers, business analysts, delivery managers and digital architects, all of whom share a vision for making better government through smarter use of technology. You will innovate to radically transform public services for the better.
The development squad you are placed on will be agreed closer to your start date, but examples of products can be found in our GitHub repository:
You can find more information about our ways of working in the HMCTS Way: https://hmcts.github.io
Technologies we rely heavily on:
- Java to write our backend services
- Node.js to write our frontend services
- Power Platform for low-code development
- Jenkins for CI/CD
- Dynatrace for application monitoring
- Kubernetes and Docker to run our services
- Azure for most of our infrastructure
- Terraform for infrastructure as code
- Postgres and Redis as our databases.
- GOV.UK Design System for our web interfaces
- Macs to do all the above
- In addition, we use a range of other technologies and continue to evolve by employing new technologies that help us deliver better services to our users
As a Developer in HMCTS you will:
- Develop, improve and document code, following best practices and internal standards.
- Continuously learn and stay up to date with relevant technologies, identifying potential issues.
- Ensure product security, data confidentiality, and integrity, raising risks as needed.
- Support and maintain software, including limited out-of-hours work when required.
- Plan development, coordinate integration, and contribute to process improvement.
- Manage service availability effectively and cost-efficiently.
- Build and test system interfaces.
- Use test-driven development, write automation scripts, and participate in code reviews.
- Mentor junior colleagues and share technical expertise.
- Design and develop software based on user stories.
- Participate in recruitment and procurement.
Person specification
Please refer to Job Description
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Developing Self and Others
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- GDD Capability Framework Skill 1: Programming and build
- GDD Capability Framework Skill 2: Systems integration
- GDD Capability Framework Skill 3: Service support
- GDD Capability Framework Skill 4: Information security
- GDD Capability Framework Skill 5: Systems design
- HMCTS Case Management Coding Challenge
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